Running a Bitcoin Core Full Node - Additional Installation Notes

BitcoinCoreFullNode.md

Addtional Setup and Installation Notes for Running a Full Node (Linux)

• Install fail2ban
• (Optional) Block data is getting larger (although at a slower pace), so you might be mounting an external drive to .bitcoin dir. If so follow these steps:

   # You want this to auto mount on reboot (or else you'll have to manually mount every time):
 - `sudo blkid` # Make note of the UUID of your drive
 - `sudo vim /etc/fstab` # Append additional entry and your mount directory (easy to default to `$HOME/.bitcoin`)
    e.g. `UUID=<hexadecimal-dashed-uuid> /home/<your-user-name>/.bitcoin/ ext4 defaults 0 0` 
 - `sudo mount -a` # Test this, you'll get errors if any

• Below is an example bitcoin.conf where I prefer reduced traffic:

# Node installation and running: https://bitcoin.org/en/full-node#other-linux-distributions
#
# https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/reduce-traffic.md

# Maintain at most N connections to peers.
maxconnections=20

# Tries to keep outbound traffic under the given target (in MiB per 24h), 0 = no limit.
maxuploadtarget=1000

# [debug]
# Enable debug logging for all categories.
debug=1

# Log IP Addresses in debug output.
logips=1

# [rpc]
# Username for JSON-RPC connections
rpcuser=<your-user>
# Password for JSON-RPC connections
rpcpassword=<some-super-secret-password>
rpcport=8332